Automated Indexing and Tool Cleaning for Tapping Torque Test Device

Abstract

Professor Gordon Krauss is interested in testing various lubricants for metal work. To do this a tapping torque tester is utilized. The test results can possibly be extended to other metal forming operations and be used to heighten production rates. We have been asked to automate this process by modifying the machine so that a software program can perform the testing with minimal operator involvement and adequate accuracy and repeatability. The machine must also have the ability to clean the tap after each hole is threaded and a mount for convenient supercritical CO2 application.